One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."